Manitoba reports progress on housing and homelessness strategy

The Manitoba New Democrat government said its homelessness strategy and investments in social housing are showing progress, with hundreds of people moving into stable housing and thousands of units added or repaired since late 2023.

In a media release on Friday, the province provided an update on housing and homelessness.

Since January 2025, when the province launched its “Your Way Home” strategy aimed at ending chronic homelessness, 186 people have moved out of encampments into housing and 80 people have moved out of shelters and transitional housing into housing with supports, according to the release.

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The NDP government has funded 1,640 social and affordable housing units since October 2023, with 252 completed and 718 under construction since taking power in late 2023.

The province also said 2,183 Manitoba Housing units have been brought back online through repairs.

Marion Willis, executive director of St. Boniface Street Links, said the numbers were impressive.

“It sounds as Your Way Home strategy is doing as much as it can, with what it has, to end homelessness for those they can,” she said on Sunday.

She added it’s great to see the numbers available, as it can shed a “fuller picture of what ending homelessness is looking like in Winnipeg.”

While her organization is not part of the province’s strategy and uses a different model, the end goal is the same, she said.

“What unites all of us is the end goal of ending homelessness. For every person that is housed, that’s when less and less person out there, and I guess we’re going to see in the spring what homelessness really looks like.”